Housing Families - Comparing housing policies targeting families with children
Family policy and housing policy, as two important pillars of the welfare state, have to date been examined in comparative social policy as two separate fields while little attention has been dedicated to their interplay, notably housing-related policies supporting families with children located at the intersection of the two fields.
The aim of the “Housing Families” research project is to explore the relatively under-researched terrain of housing assistance to families with children. As part of the project, a database of housing-related policies targeting families with children adopted in eight European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) since the beginning of the 20th century is created allowing for the comparative analysis of their design. Based on the database, the long-term development of policies is examined in the context of wider socio-political changes in the different case studies such as demographic trends, the dominance of conservative political parties championing pronatalist policies, housing market cycles, and specific regional or domestic political developments.